Weiming City is not a big city in Yongchang County. As a small city in the south of Yongchang and close to Southern Xinjiang, it is far less prosperous than Shunping City in Sancang. The city is only ten miles square and the city wall is only two feet long.
Although the unnamed city is small, it is well-equipped. The east city is rich and the north city is expensive. It will be solemnly opened only when envoys from Yicheng come or when the Confederate army returns to the north in triumph, and it will be closed at other times.
As for the people going south and north who have to take a detour to enter the city, that is not something that the gentlemen in Weiming City need to worry about.
Because Weiming City has the rules of Weiming City. It was late that night, and the city was silent. The watchman had already sounded four times, and ordinary people had already turned out the lights and gone to sleep. However, in the Beicheng District, which is usually the quietest place, there were still the sounds of cars and horses, mixed with people's deliberately suppressed whispers. The sound of ropes and the occasional snoring of horses and mules made the night seem a little different.
The drivers were dressed in different costumes and were obviously not from the same family. They all sat on the carriages in a row and carefully controlled the horses and oxen to move forward. They listened to the lowered voices of the military men holding torches on the side of the road. Command, don’t even dare to fart.
There are bulging bags on the carriages, all of which are heavy and heavy cloth bags. Although the cloth bags are a little old, they are of the same style. The carriages carrying the goods are lined up one after another, and I don’t know how far they are lined up.
Moving forward along the convoy, there was an ox cart at the front. The driver was an old man with a short stature. The old man's eyes were not big, and his smile was narrowed. He had already loaded the goods and queued for most of the night, and he was very tired. I could hardly raise my eyelids, and I was about to reach the place. After turning a corner under the command of several military masters holding torches, I could clearly see where I was at the moment.
This is a place on higher ground. The outer wall along the street is extremely high, nearly two feet tall. There is a parapet at the top of the wall. By the light of the torches on the wall, patrolling soldiers carrying bows and arrows can be vaguely seen, and they are heavily guarded!
The old man just raised his head and glanced up. He didn't even see what was written on the plaque on the towering tower. He quickly lowered his head and drove the ox cart to the gate below the tower. He was dragged out of the car by several military masters and the blood on his body was removed. After checking inside and outside, he yelled and asked him to drive in.
The old man nodded and bowed and climbed onto the cart, not daring to swing his whip. He just stretched out his foot and kicked the cow's buttocks, and the cart slowly drove in.
Once inside, it suddenly became clear, because the gate was facing a wide avenue. On both sides of the avenue, rows of houses were neatly arranged. The houses were quite strange. Not only were they higher than the ground, but they were also It has walls, no windows, and an air tower on the top, like a prison cell.
When the old man saw this, he couldn't help but trembled all over. The fatigue and drowsiness he had felt were immediately thrown away, because he suddenly understood where he was at the moment - the official granary!
A place like this is extremely strict on the entry and exit of a grain of rice. How could a cart driver with a humble background like them be able to enter?
Thinking of this, the old man was so confused that he didn't know how to deal with himself. But the military men waiting by the avenue didn't give him time to think too much. A man with a torch waved to him, shouted, and waved his ox cart aside, and several Lifu rushed over. Unloading from his car.
"Kneel beside the car, lower your head, don't look!" an older military commander shouted.
"Yes, yes, yes," the old man quickly knelt down beside the bullock cart, still holding the reins with one hand. He put his head on the cold stone floor, his eyes fixed on the lines of texture on the stone slab, and his ears listened. Listening to the sound of so many people moving and unloading goods around, it felt like every day seemed like a year.
Just when he was staring blankly, and even the sounds in his ears were a little distant, a shout that resounded through the night sky suddenly brought him back to reality, and made him immediately have the urge to pee!
"It's gone!"
"It's gone! Put out the fire!!"
"Get water, get water!" The chaotic sound in the old man's ears suddenly became noisy!
There were military masters yelling at the coachmen to stop running around, soldiers directing the laborers to put out the fire, and there were also the sounds of frightened horses and cows shouting, footsteps, and shouts, making the old man unable to hold his limbs. Tremble.
He didn't dare to move, but after struggling for a moment, he still raised his head with great effort and took a look. At this glance, he saw a sight he would never forget in his life!
Not far away from him, in the second row on the right side of Granary Avenue, a room suddenly burst into flames. The flames were flickering, as if they were about to go out, and something even more terrifying was brewing. Thing, the old man didn’t know why, but there was only one sentence echoing repeatedly in his mind!
This is not ordinary fire, this is not ordinary fire! Then, just when his mind went blank, a ray of blue light fell from the sky!
The light was like a finger from heaven, as if it was born from the void above everyone's head, and ended in the house glowing with fire. Then, the bright and extinguishing light that gave everyone great fear in an instant disappeared in the blink of an eye. !
Immediately afterwards, two more blue rays of light flashed away, and two other roofs were penetrated. When the dust settled, everyone in the granary, including the old man, was stunned. !
Because a huge mysterious flying boat that looked like a shuttle appeared at some point a few feet above everyone's heads, and slowly descended, finally landing in the middle of the empty Granary Avenue behind the watchtower!
! It was only then that a fat officer in charge of guarding the granary jumped up and shouted. The soldiers who had gathered because of the fire in the granary threw the soldiers aside and rushed over with swords and guns, flying the shuttle. The crowd was full of people!
The atmosphere was strange and tense for a moment! Then, the faint light on the upper layer of the shuttle slowly faded, and four people jumped out of it. They Shiran fell into the group of soldiers who were waiting for them, but they turned a blind eye to the sword that was so close at hand!
With the help of the torches of the soldiers around him, the old man could clearly see the faces of the four people. Two of them were a man and a woman, both wearing blue robes. The man had sword-shaped eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and he had an extraordinary bearing. The two long beards on his lips made him more majestic. The woman Her eyes are like autumn water, her eyebrows are like distant mountains, and her clothes are as misty as heavenly beings.
On both sides are an old man and a young man. The old man has a long beard and white hair, and the young man is carved in pink and jade.
"Who are you? You dare to trespass on our important military territory in Yongchang County!" The fat man who had shouted earlier, who was probably the granary garrison, hid in the group of soldiers and shouted with eyes wide open.
But no one among the four looked at him. The younger Taoist priest glanced at the house that had been lit with fire and asked the blue-robed fairy next to him,
"Have the monsters been killed here?"
"Of course," the blue-robed fairy looked somewhere in the city,
"Zhang Biao and the others have already started." The young Taoist priest nodded after hearing this, then turned to the fat man among the soldiers, smiled slightly, took out a red token from his arms and raised it high.
"By order of the Grand Administrator!" He glanced around with a majestic look. The fat man opened his eyes and looked closely at the token in the young Taoist priest's hand. Then his fat body trembled and he quickly crawled in the tunnel.
"I obey the order of the Grand Administrator!!" Upon seeing this, the surrounding soldiers, Lifu and other carriage drivers knelt on the ground one by one.
Next to the young Taoist priest, the fairy in blue robe did not look at the scene in front of him. The old Taoist with long beard twirled his beard and smiled. On the other side, the child in red robe stared at the token in the young Taoist priest's hand with his eyes as wide as copper bells. .
"We are going south to Weiming City on the order of the Grand Administrator," the young Taoist priest said calmly, ignoring everyone's expressions.
"Kill the monsters, kill the spies, kill the traitors!" Killed three people in a row, with murderous intent. Kill kill kill!
